You won’t find any company’s annual report as clearheaded, straightforward and cogent as you do Berkshire’s; they’re truly and terribly refreshing to read. Key excerpts from this year’s letter: Long ago, Charlie laid out his strongest ambition: “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” That bit
Read More...Steven Levy, writing for Wired: This is the hard-won realization from inside the Google search engine, culled from the data generated by billions of searches: a rock is a rock. It’s also a stone, and it could be a boulder. Spell it “rokc” and it’s still a rock. But put “little” in front of it
Read More...On Fridays, I put on the pith helmet and waders to scour the crufty, damp corners of the internet so you don’t have to. This week’s bounty: Eric Karjaluoto is giving away his book Speak Human one chapter at a time. If you’re interested, here are the first two chapters: Big Isn’t the Only Option
Read More...Gartner has posted the 2010 Magic Quadrant for BI platforms, and in terms of hitting a sweetspot between ability to execute and vision, Oracle has been squarely positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant. The full report is full of good information, but there are a few things worth noting: Oracle has established the Oracle BI Enterprise
Read More...From the UK’s Sussex Safer Roads comes perhaps the best public service ad I’ve ever seen. It’s cinematic, creative, paced perfectly and, in the end, quite poignant. From concept to casting to photography to execution, this is nearly perfect. Love it. (Via Jason F. over at 37signals) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm
Read More...Before we get to the links, one reminder: if you use PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) or are considering it, I cannot encourage you strongly enough to attend the Oracle Maintenance Summit. This event is being held on March 9-10 in Redwood Shores, CA, and has 117 companies and nearly 300 attendees so far. If
Read More...I don’t often wander too far into pop culture on this blog, but Esquire’s Chris Jones has a simply awesome profile of Roger Ebert that explores the man, dying and unable to speak, in the midst of his own personal renaissance as a writer. Ebert writes about his own impending mortality as bravely and candidly
Read More...Derek Sivers’ 3-minute TED talk on leadership lessons from this dancing guy got a standing ovation.
Read More...Jason Kottke reminds me of how much I’ve always loved fractals, despite not having the chops to understand them fully at a mathematical level. Like Kottke, when I built my 386-based computer (running at a searing 33 MHz) a zillion years ago, I remember installing a DOS-based fractals program that would attempt a deep dive
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